Hoche () is a

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of the

Paris Métro The Paris Métro (french: Métro de Paris ; short for Métropolitain ) is a rapid transit system in the Paris metropolitan area, France. A symbol of the Paris, city, it is known for its density within the capital's territorial limits, uniform ar ...

, serving Line 5.

Location

The station is located in

Pantin Pantin () is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. In 2019 its population was estimated to be 59,846. Pantin is located on the edge of the city of Paris and is mainly formed by a plain ...

under Avenue Jean-Lolive at Rue Hoche and Rue du Pré-Saint-Gervais.

History

The station was opened on 12 October 1942 during the extension of the line to the Eglise de Pantin station. It is located under Avenue Jean-Lolive at the intersection with Rue Hoche to which it owes its name. It pays homage to General

Lazare Hoche Louis Lazare Hoche (; 24 June 1768 – 19 September 1797) was a French military leader of the French Revolutionary Wars. He won a victory over Royalist forces in Brittany. His surname is one of the names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe, on ...

(1768-1797) who, at the age of 25, commanded the

Army of the Moselle The Army of the Moselle (''Armée de la Moselle'') was a French Revolutionary Army from 1791 through 1795. It was first known as the ''Army of the Centre'' and it fought at Valmy. In October 1792 it was renamed and subsequently fought at Trier, F ...

with which he drove the Austrians back to

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, cleared

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and

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. The platform in the direction of Bobigny presents in a display case, a bust of Lazare Hoche and images evoking the life of this General of the Revolution. In 2018 it saw 5,185,130 travelers, which placed it at the 87th position of metro stations for attendance. For more than ten years until 2018, the name of the station on the walls of the platforms were written in

Parisine Parisine is a typeface created by Jean-François Porchez. Distributed by Typofonderie. It is used in Paris Métro, tramways, buses and RER parts operated by the RATP Group in Île-de-France. Starting in 2015, the Osaka City Subway in Japan a ...

font on thin plates covering the original names in

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. They were re-continued, a feature that the station shares with Filles du Calvaire on Line 8 and Porte des Lilas on Line 11.

Passenger services

Access

The station has two entrances on both sides of Avenue Jean-Lolive, west of the intersection with Hoche Street.

Station layout

Platforms

Hoche is a standard configuration station with two platforms separated by subway tracks under an elliptical vault. It has white and rounded lighting bands in the ''Gaudin'' style of the metro revival of the 2000s and white bevelled ceramic tiles cover the walls, vault, tunnel exits and outlets of the corridors. The platforms are equipped with benches made of slats and the name of the station is inscribed in

, in the style of the original CMP. It is therefore decorated in a style identical to that applied to most Paris metro stations. Only the advertising frames are special: in brown

and with simple patterns, they are surmounted by the letter ''M''. These same frames are only present in seven other stations of the Paris metro.

Bus connections

The station is served by Lines 151, 170 and 330 of the

RATP Bus Network The RATP bus network covers the entire territory of the city of Paris and the vast majority of its near suburbs. Operated by the Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP), this constitutes a dense bus network complementary to other public ...

and by lines N13, N41 and N45 of the

Noctilien Noctilien is the night bus service in Paris and its agglomeration. It is managed by the Île-de-France Mobilités (formerly the STIF), the Île-de-France regional public transit authority, and operated by RATP (with 32 lines) and Transilien SNC ...

bus network.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hoche (Paris Metro) Paris Métro stations in Pantin Railway stations in France opened in 1942